Hopefully they sort this out... Developing for the sim where you have to restart several times (even with fast-mode and in-game tools) becomes very very tiring quickly. I'd love to just open the sim and it takes me straight to an airport with an aircraft selected automatically like P3D does.

 

Well, yeah, same here, and this is a problem, why?

By the time the sim loads on my crappy machine and I'm ready to fly, I got my dishes done and the laundry folded. 

Of all the recent games/sims I've owned this one does clearly take the longest to get to the main menu. I've disabled the logos and on my M.2 SSD it does load reasonably quickly but still too long, hopefully it's something they can tweak in the future but it's not a major issue for me.

I remember having FSX setup up to skip the main menu completely and directly load into my plane in a cold and dark (or whatever state you like) with live weather injected. I used to plan my flights from there...

would be nice to have such an option in MSFS too.

For me the startup time is not that bad, but I wonder why we need to "Press any key".

When I click on the icon on my desktop, I do so because I want to use the simulator.

Asking me to "Press any key" makes no sense, since there aren´t any options to back out at that point.

11 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

Now that I've got things working (mostly), I still wonder about the start up of the sim.

Do you have the same experience?

1. 30 secs of "nothing".. no reaction to indicate that I was successful in starting the program

2. 10 secs of black screen with grey surround

3. Flashy corporate logos

4. Pretty picture with "PRESS ANY KEY"

5. Pretty picture with blue bar

6. Grey surround with "WELCOME, SET YOUR EXPERIENCE"

7. New pretty picture with blue bar.. which takes a long time..

8. Sim welcome screen

Bizarre sequence IMHO.. Am I the only one?

Totally agree....specially with the first point, so frustrating !!!

Press any key...

'Yeah, I already did that when I clicked on the shortcut icon which I specifically attached to my task bar for that purpose.'

Okay-dokey then, I'll start up the music you turned off in the audio options, shall I?

I complained about this on day of release right before I removed it.

Today I just see it as part of the process.

Edited September 9, 20205 yr by DJJose

Lets hope that Asobo is reading this...

15 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

3. Flashy corporate logos

Here is a fix for that, which was available right after the title released:

 

Wasn't the startup already a "significantly improved" item planned for release in the next patch?

15 hours ago, Bert Pieke said:

Now that I've got things working (mostly), I still wonder about the start up of the sim.

Do you have the same experience?

1. 30 secs of "nothing".. no reaction to indicate that I was successful in starting the program

2. 10 secs of black screen with grey surround

3. Flashy corporate logos

4. Pretty picture with "PRESS ANY KEY"

5. Pretty picture with blue bar

6. Grey surround with "WELCOME, SET YOUR EXPERIENCE"

7. New pretty picture with blue bar.. which takes a long time..

8. Sim welcome screen

Bizarre sequence IMHO.. Am I the only one?

I don't get number 3 as I use the custom start but yer its a ZZzzz Bert.

30 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Lets hope that Asobo is reading this...

On the MSFS site, members on that site are able to vote on fixes and bugs, which give Asobo an idea of user's priorities. Asobo has stated that they do look at Avsim, but it might be good for some Avsim members to go to the MSFS site and look at the bugs and how they rank, as well as vote for the bugs that they think are important. This is a great way for people to communicate with Asobo.

42 minutes ago, DylanM said:

Wasn't the startup already a "significantly improved" item planned for release in the next patch?

That would be nice, indeed 🙂

Has anyone screamed in frustration and asked where the "Any Key" was on their keyboard? 😅